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Metallic Hydrogen is Produced for The First Time!

serfserf Member Posts: 9,217 ✭✭✭✭
edited January 2017 in General Discussion
This is suppose to be a big game changer for society however the pressures required to crush into it's metallic form is tremendous with high energy use to produce at this stage.



serf

https://www.yahoo.com/news/hydrogen-turned-metal-change-world-205955795.html

It literally took dropping liquid hydrogen to almost absolute zero and crushing it between two diamonds at thousands of times the pressure of Earth's atmosphere, but. here we are. They've created metallic hydrogen. The next step is to ease the pressure and see if the theory that once made metal, hydrogen stays that way at "room temperature" holds.

If it does, then, not to oversell it or anything, but basically the entire course of human history has been irrevocably shifted. Metallic hydrogen is, in theory, a room-temperature superconductor. In a normal conductor, like a copper wire, there's resistance - think of it like pouring chocolate syrup through a sieve. No matter how fine the sieve, or how slick the wires, some of that syrup is going to stay behind.

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  • danielgagedanielgage Member Posts: 10,543 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
  • WarbirdsWarbirds Member Posts: 16,925 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Seems like a difficult process.

    Absolute zero is a reference to Kelvin. It converts to about -450 degrees F.

    Atoms stop moving.
  • mag00mag00 Member Posts: 4,719 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    How would you weld it?

    Does the Hindenburg have any precautionary tales that may apply?

    Although, drop one tablet in some liquid oxygen and see what happens. Might be great for camping.
  • woodshed87woodshed87 Member Posts: 23,478 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hmmmmm I think they Just invented

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  • AlpineAlpine Member Posts: 15,092 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I just finished watching a U Tube series on making gases into liquids.

    Getting the temp down, and the pressure up was key to the transformation.

    Hydrogen was the last gas to made to liquidify. And the temp. needed to reach was was within a few thousandths of absolute zero.


    Some interesting stuff.
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  • discusdaddiscusdad Member Posts: 11,427 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    bring it on. i wanna see a Warp Drive built sooner than later[:D]
  • 1911a1-fan1911a1-fan Member Posts: 51,193 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by discusdad
    bring it on. i wanna see a Warp Drive built sooner than later[:D]



    then we could go to Jupiter and mine for more
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